'Cause it's all an illusion, here's a lens

[venta]

I'm clearly not going to get round to writing a proper review of the Indelicates' single launch last week, so here we have a quick bullet point list instead:

Philip Jeays

Rather marvellous, almost operatic, would really like to hear more of his stuff. Despite the name, he appears to be a five piece band playing actually really rather nice (and quite grown up) music.

The Space Peacocks

Noisy. Fun, but ultimately not actually very good. They seem like nice people, though. According to something I read on a website, they took Art Brut up on the offer of a franchise and were formerly Art Brut 3.

The Ne'er-Do-Wells

Involve bassist who doesn't play bass all that well, a drummer who doesn't play drums all that well, and a bloke who rants very well indeed. They should have been dreadful, but were actually extremely entertaining. Bonus points to them for handing out numbered programs detailing the songs they were going to perform, and for having good songnames: 8 Second Fuck Up did exactly what it said on the tin.

The Indelicates

In fine fettle, despite having temporarily lost their guitarist to a stage somewhere, and having to reinstate their old one. If you don't know who this band are, where have you been?

And, of course, I was there with my trusty camera. Having taken some photos of chimney pots to finish my film on the way there (I'm very exciting, you know), I carefully wound a fast film into the camera. Sadly, I was trying to buy a drink and hold a conversation at the same time, and forgot to update the speed setting of the camera, resulting in things getting a bit overexposed.

However, here are the edited highlights of The Indelicates and their supports:

		Ne'er-Do-Wells
Space Peacocks

Big(ish) versions can be found here.

Owing to the abovementioned cock-up with the exposure times, I took the film into a Proper Shop to be developed rather than sending it off to Bonusprint. The Proper Shop doesn't put films on CD, so those images were scanned by me from negatives.

However... the colours and contrast have come out really quite wonky. Several of the photos which looked OK on paper came out looking colourless and overexposed when scanned. Does anyone know anything about scanning ?

Is it that the negatives are a bit ropey, and the Proper Shop compensated when printing in a way which Photoshop and I have not yet worked out ?

At the moment, I've got dpi set to 1200 and it does go up to 3600 or so - will that make much difference to the contrast ? I'll have to try it out.

Also, by following directions given by some random bloke in a Never Mind The Bollocks t-shirt, it has been independently verified that there really is a windmill at Brixton Windmill. Sadly, it was too dark by then for me to provide photographic evidence.

Comments

[floralaetifica.livejournal.com]

I often find that coloursn don't come out quite right when I scan. I've always assumed this was because I have a cheap-arsed scanner.

But it may also be your scanning settings - you can reconfigure them in all kinds of clever ways, usually, including changing the colour histograms.

[erming.livejournal.com]

If you let them know, or they look at the prints they can compensate for faults in the development.

This means you can sometimes get them to adjust brightness and colours etc.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Eh ? I don't understand, I'm afraid. Who are "them" in that sentence ?

[erming.livejournal.com]

the developers.

If they spot things are off, a good developer can compensate and rescue your prints.

[venta.livejournal.com]

No, the problem is that the developers already have compensated on the prints. Which means the prints look fine, but my scans of the negatives look awful. What I want to know is how I can pretty up my scans to make them look like the prints.

[martinv.livejournal.com]

Your journal seems to be a bit of a treasure trove of Indelicates Stuff! Found it via a last.fm comment. Great stuff, especially the '...16' MP3, hadn't managed to get hold of that... Mind if I add you?

[(Anonymous)]

Mind if I add you?

Not at all, come on in. The more the merrier :)

Mind you, I feel it's only fair to warn you that I'm not actually a deranged Indelicates obsessive, so current levels of treasure-trove are not wholly representative of this journal.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Ahem. That comment was me, too inept to log myself in.

[martinv.livejournal.com]

Heh. Good stuff. I wasn't friending you just to steal your Indelicates stuff, honest! You do seem to have generally rather excellent musical taste, also.

[venta.livejournal.com]

You do seem to have generally rather excellent musical taste, also.

Thanks.

Having noted the degree of overlap in our last.fm 'top artists' list, I am of course obliged to say the same about you ;)

[marjory.livejournal.com]

I used to live in Brixton. Tumpy-tum...

Nice photos.